[MERGE][#248153] Add autopack RPC

[John Arbash Meinel]

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Robert Collins wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-10-31 at 02:53 +1100, Andrew Bennetts wrote:
> 
>> John Arbash Meinel wrote:
>> ] I agree that returning 'pack-names' seems reasonable, and it shouldn't
>> ] be very hard to factor 'reload_pack_names' one more time to allow
>> ] passing in the name list.
>>
>> Fair enough.  It's more than just a list of names, but I've extended the
>> code to do this.
> 
> I think this is a bad idea, because its really an internal aspect of the
> repo.
> 
> For instance.. in development3, there are more fields. In dev 4 there
> may be less...
> 
> -Rob

True, but as long as it is just a "key, value" pair in the index, it
seems to work just fine. Looking at Andrew's code he doesn't do any
direct decoding of what is in the index, just packs it into a tuple and
ships it to the other side.

Another possibility would be to ship the bytes of 'pack-names' back
directly, if you think it is an issue. It does seem like we are wasting
a return value if we don't pass something back from the "autopack" RPC.

John
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